As you may be aware, new rules around motor insurance documentation have been introduced. The rules are aimed at improving transparency for consumers but a broker is warning they may have unintended consequences and could cause some confusion among policy holders.

Storm Lorenzo has passed by but it there is a long winter ahead and experts say last week’s weather alerts should serve as a reminder of the need to get your home ready for the worst nature could throw at us.

I have already written about travel insurance this year, concentrating on the factors families should consider when choosing their cover and the important questions to ask about their policy.

Leading insurance broker for small businesses, CFM Insurance Group, wants the Government to overhaul the current system governing minor injuries awards.

Insurers, brokers and businesses have come out in favour of key reforms being considered by the Government to curb fraudulent and misleading insurance claims.

The higher-level home economics paper included a very challenging question on diabetes that was more suitable for Leaving Cert level, teachers have said.

Does your bank provide your home insurance, and is it competitive? John Hearne says now may be a good time to shop around.

Dr Crokes eased to an eighth Munster club SFC crown this afternoon, the destination of the O’Connor Cup never in doubt after a powerful opening burst from the Kerry champions.

Parents and pupils of a Cork school last week reacted angrily after a local priest used his homily during a graduation Mass to back a no vote in the referendum on the Eighth Amendment.

The 2018 GAA season has begun in earnest. One of the key talking points is whether Galway will retain their All-Ireland hurling title, writes Jack Anderson.

It is, in many ways, a make-or-break weekend for Ireland at the IAAF World Championships in London, with seven of the 11-strong team taking to the track or roads in the English capital over the next two days.

A claims register must be established as a matter of urgency to out ‘trip and trick’ claimants, one of Ireland’s largest general insurance brokers has urged.

Two-time Irish marathon champion Sean Hehir says he is far more inspired by legendary Clare hard-man Seamus Power than the Kenyan Olympic champion who took part in the recent bid to break the two-hour marathon barrier.

A runner always thinks they can do better when they run a personal best but there wasn’t much more Sean Hehir could do after his breakthrough performance at the London Marathon last Sunday.

Tony Hehir couldn’t have been happier when overtime ended yesterday and the scoreboard in Inchicore’s Oblate Hall confirmed that his Mary Immaculate College side had claimed the All-Ireland Colleges Ladies Division 2 title.

A 21-year-old man has has been released on conditional bail after he was charged over a stabbing in Birr, Co. Offaly which left a man in critical condition.

Insurers have been called on to reassess their pricing approach to young drivers.

Defending national champion Sean Hehir believes tomorrow’s SSE Airticity Dublin Marathon showcases the capital at its best where record numbers of just under 20,000 will be led out by a strong East African representation.

A Limerick man has offered no objection to forfeiting €44,000 which a judge ruled was the proceeds of crime or was intended for use in criminal conduct.

For several of Ireland’s best marathoners, the door finally closed on Olympic qualification at the London Marathon yesterday, with the race to Rio de Janeiro now left in the hands of selectors ahead of next month’s deadline.

Urgent action is needed to tackle spiralling car insurance costs, as the cost of insuring a car has already increased by one-third in the last year.

Waterford 0-11 Wexford 0-12: An irate Waterford manager Tom McGlinchey remonstrated with referee Shane Hehir on the full-time whistle after Wexford squashed their promotion aspirations.

NUI Galway 0-16 University of Limerick 0-15: University of Limerick’s Fitzgibbon Cup title defence remains on track despite a narrow defeat to NUIG at Rhebogue in Limerick.

Sean Hehir and Pauline Curley stole the headlines winning the national titles at the SSE Airtricity Dublin marathon as Alemu Gemechu and Nataliya Lehonkova took overall glory ahead of a record entry of more than 15,000.

Clare 0-23

IT is possible to argue that, with the possible exception of Michael O’Hehir, Bill O’Herlihy was the broadcaster most universally welcome in Irish homes over the last 50 years.

Tipperary 0-16 Clare 2-9: Brendan Martin shattered Clare’s dreams of a first Electric Ireland Munster Minor football final appearance in 21 years at Semple Stadium last night.

Clare 2-11 Limerick 0-5: Clare qualified for a semi-final spot in the Munster MFC against Tipperary on May 13 after ousting Limerick at Cusack Park, Ennis last evening.

A fifth victory in a row by Sergiu Ciobanu of Clonliffe Harriers in the men’s race in and a course record winning time of 54:20 by Maria McCambridge of Dundrum South Dublin Athletic Club were the highlight performances at yesterday’s annual Ballycotton 10 mile in East Cork — the 38th running of this Irish road classic.

Dublin man Cliff Henry was determined to pull out all the stops for his proposal to childhood sweetheart Fiona O’Hehir so he decided to enlist some very special helpers.

It was bittersweet for the Irish on the final day of the European championships in Zurich as Paul Robinson and Ciarán Ó Lionáird had two conflicting reasons to rue the 1500m final while the men’s 4x400m relay ran another national record of 3:01.67 to place fifth.

A bittersweet final day for Ireland at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich saw fourth and fifth places achieved, with another national record taken – but so much more was possible.

Daniele Meucci has won the men's marathon for Italy at the European Athletics Championships ahead of Yared Shegumo of Poland and Aleksey Reunkov of Russia.

A car thief didn’t bargain for former councillor known as ‘The Bomber’ when stealing his 4x4 outside his daughter’s home in May.

Two years ago, the little nine-hole Spanish Point links in West Clare didn’t have a pennant of any kind.

Car insurance premiums will not rise as a result of the introduction of new ‘N’ plates for novice drivers from August, according to insurers.

Nowhere are the travails of a county longing for an All-Ireland more documented than Galway

The pressure on small business people to come up with money to insure their vans after the collapse of Setanta Insurance in Malta has reduced men to tears.

It was almost the greatest marathon win of all time — even though the mystery runner happened to be in a different county as the drama unfolded.

Seán Hehir and Maria McCambridge capitalised on the domestic entry at the 34th Airtricity Dublin Marathon yesterday to become the first joint Irish winners since 1993 in two exciting duels that ebbed and flowed as record numbers took to the streets for the classic distance.

Sean Hehir became the first Irish winner of the Dublin marathon in 20 years this morning.

Spanish Point gave Munster golf another reason to cheer at the AIG All-Ireland Cups & Shields National finals when they lifted the Pierce Purcell Shield at Royal Tara Golf Club.